Ships shown as registered at Owen Sound, Ontario in the Mercantile Navy List for 1900

British ships were registered at one of hundreds of ports of registry around Britain and what were then British colonies.

This page is an index of ships by their port of registry using data from the contemporary official sources such as the Mercantile Navy List (MNL) and the Appropriation Books.

For each port, it shows first a count of the entries by year. For a year selected from that list, it shows ship names and official numbers, sorted first by name, then by official number, with other details such as date of registration, and rig. For each record, links are provided to images of the source documents and to other data items such as holdings of crew lists.

For a full explanation of the records of British shipping, please see our information page, here: Records of British ships

How to search for ships by port

As described above, first select the port, then the year from the table of counts of ships.

For some ports, where there were other ports nearby, ships may have been registered at one of those ports. Where this is a possibility, the form provides facilities to switch to one of the other ports, or to see data for all the ports together.

Reading the results

The results show the names of ships registered at the port according to the records for that year. For record sets after 1855, the ship's official number is shown. The results show any other details from the source, and the exact reference for the source so that you can see where our information came from. The  icon links to images of the source.

For the pre-1857 data drawn from BT 111 and BT 162, there is a link on the right hand side Data post 1855 which will search the CLIP data for later years by name and port, looking for possible matches in the period 1855 to 1870. Beware! Because there were no official numbers for this period, these are only tentative suggestions, not exact matches. Some common names could result in many possibilities!

For post-1857 data, which has official numbers, there are also links to show holdings of crew lists for that ship, using the Maritime History Archive index and our own CLIP index.

The 'More...' link will show all the information that we have for that official number.

The records are initially sorted by the ship's name. For the pre-1857 records, the records can be sorted by year and number of registration; for the post-1857 data, they can be sorted by official number. To change the sort, click the small icon next to the column heading.

For data from BT 111 and 1850 (BT 162), there is a final column, Port no/PR no, shows port number and port rotation number combinations for that ship, which we have recorded or have interpolated from crew list records for the period 1845 to 1854 in BT 98 at TNA. These numbers were used in the records of seafarers such as BT 113 and BT 124.

For more details of port numbers, see Port numbers . For more details of port rotation numbers, see Port rotation numbers

The entries are colour coded.  nn/nnn  indicates data drawn from BT 98.  nn/nnn  indicates data interpolated from BT 98 data. Blank entries indicate where we have no data and are not able to interpolate data reliably, for example registrations pre-1845. Many early (and some post-1853) registrations may never have been allocated a port rotation number.

The link next to the data goes to the main port rotation numbers page for that registration.

Our thanks to James Canney for suggesting adding the port rotation number data.

Data sources

The sources of the data are:

Please see our general information page CLIP data for details on sources, methodology, the abbreviations we have used, and our acknowledgements.

Be aware! CLIP data is transcribed 'as seen' - we have not tried to interpret or correct it (but see note about BT 111 in the Data sources section). Where we have doubts about an item, or have edited it, we mark it with a  ? .

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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
AGNES853251884, Steam View entry for AGNES in MNL 1900, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED A HACKETT85327Sail, Schooner View entry for ALFRED A HACKETT in MNL 1900, page 397 MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED MORRELL853281885, Steam View entry for ALFRED MORRELL in MNL 1900, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE BROOKS809091882, Steam View entry for ALICE BROOKS in MNL 1900, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA922891888, Steam View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1900, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
BELLE711841876, Steam View entry for BELLE in MNL 1900, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
CITY OF COLLINGWOOD947661893, Steam View entry for CITY OF COLLINGWOOD in MNL 1900, page 70 MHACLIPMore...
CITY OF TORONTO947691895, Steam View entry for CITY OF TORONTO in MNL 1900, page 71 MHACLIPMore...
DOLPHIN1075961899, Steam View entry for DOLPHIN in MNL 1900, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
DREDGE NO 91075931899, Steam View entry for DREDGE NO 9 in MNL 1900, page 100 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY711871878, Steam View entry for FANNY in MNL 1900, page 126 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY ARNOLD853221882, Steam View entry for FANNY ARNOLD in MNL 1900, page 126 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE M947701898, Steam View entry for FLORENCE M in MNL 1900, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
FRANK REED922811886, Steam View entry for FRANK REED in MNL 1900, page 135 MHACLIPMore...
G B MCINTOSH922881888, Steam View entry for G B MCINTOSH in MNL 1900, page 138 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN HARRISON853241884, Steam View entry for JOHN HARRISON in MNL 1900, page 186 MHACLIPMore...
KATAHDIN92290Sail, Schooner View entry for KATAHDIN in MNL 1900, page 561 MHACLIPMore...
KATE PILGRIM711831875, Steam View entry for KATE PILGRIM in MNL 1900, page 191 MHACLIPMore...
LADY EBERTH809071881, Steam View entry for LADY EBERTH in MNL 1900, page 201 MHACLIPMore...
LAURA M947681894, Steam View entry for LAURA M in MNL 1900, page 205 MHACLIPMore...
LILLIAN947671893, Steam View entry for LILLIAN in MNL 1900, page 208 MHACLIPMore...
MAGGIE MCLEAN853291887, Steam View entry for MAGGIE MCLEAN in MNL 1900, page 220 MHACLIPMore...
MASCOT947641890, Steam View entry for MASCOT in MNL 1900, page 230 MHACLIPMore...
MIKADO922831886, Steam View entry for MIKADO in MNL 1900, page 237 MHACLIPMore...
MISCHIEF922821886, Steam View entry for MISCHIEF in MNL 1900, page 239 MHACLIPMore...
MOCKING BIRD853301886, Steam View entry for MOCKING BIRD in MNL 1900, page 240 MHACLIPMore...
P S HIRSORDT922861887, Steam View entry for P S HIRSORDT in MNL 1900, page 268 MHACLIPMore...
PRIMROSE1075941899, Steam View entry for PRIMROSE in MNL 1900, page 283 MHACLIPMore...
RAMBLER1075911898, Steam View entry for RAMBLER in MNL 1900, page 292 MHACLIPMore...
ROVER922841887, Steam View entry for ROVER in MNL 1900, page 306 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT ANDREW906941896, Steam View entry for SAINT ANDREW in MNL 1900, page 309 MHACLIPMore...
SEGUIN947631890, Steam View entry for SEGUIN in MNL 1900, page 320 MHACLIPMore...
SISKIWIT922871887, Steam View entry for SISKIWIT in MNL 1900, page 325 MHACLIPMore...
SUPERIOR809081882, Steam View entry for SUPERIOR in MNL 1900, page 337 MHACLIPMore...
THOMAS MAITLAND1075951899, Steam View entry for THOMAS MAITLAND in MNL 1900, page 348 MHACLIPMore...
W S OLDFIELD1075921898, Steam View entry for W S OLDFIELD in MNL 1900, page 370 MHACLIPMore...
WATER WITCH809051880, Steam View entry for WATER WITCH in MNL 1900, page 374 MHACLIPMore...
WIARTON BELLE711881879, Steam View entry for WIARTON BELLE in MNL 1900, page 378 MHACLIPMore...
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